Henry C. Lea Elementary School

	Henry C. Lea School of Practice
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Henry C. Lea School of Practice, September 2010
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Location	4700 Locust Street.,; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°57′16″N 75°12′59″W / 39.9545°N 75.2163°WCoordinates: 39°57′16″N 75°12′59″W / 39.9545°N 75.2163°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1914
Built by	Cramp & Co.
Architect	Henry deCourcy Richards
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
MPS	Philadelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	88002291
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1988

Henry C. Lea Elementary School is a historic elementary school located in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built by Cramp & Co. in 1914. It is a three-story, five bay, reinforced concrete building faced with brick and with terra cotta and granite trim in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It sits on a raised basement. It features a Classical limestone center entrance surround, a central two-story bay window, decorative panels, crenelated parapet, and a projecting entrance bay. It was used as an "observation school" for teacher education and training.^[2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Henry C. Lea School of Practice.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jefferson M. Moak (May 1987). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Henry C. Lea School of Practice" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.

External links[]

Official website
Lea Elementary at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jefferson M. Moak (May 1987). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Henry C. Lea School of Practice" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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